I am not ok
8 years ago
I have not been ok for a few months. It's gotten worse. I'm a month behind on my student loans, barely able to make my mortgage, and have to decide between being able to do anything this month, or paying my condo fees. My Employment Insurance runs out at the end of August. I have had exactly one interview in the last year (which I nailed, and was offered a job, only to have the offer revoked when I couldn't start immediately because I was 2hours out of town at my parents' place for the weekend). My teaching certification for Alberta runs out at the end of August as well, unless I get a job and have it renewed.
I'm going to have to sell my condo, and start lying on my resume. Not to make myself look better, but to make it look like I don't have two degrees. I've applied at various retail positions, and been turned away because I'm TOO qualified. I don't want a better job, I just want to be able to work, so I can live.
To top it all off, I'm fat, and the only relationship I've ever been in was a one-night stand that didn't leave in the morning, and decided to stay for two years. This relationship put me off dating and physical intimacy, due to extreme incompatibilities in our likes.
My options right now are 'move in with my parents', which would drive me insane within a week, and 'move in with a friend', which is possible, but only because it would take a month to go crazy instead of a week.
Help. I don't know what to do, or what's going to happen. I had a great job, and lost it. I have two university degrees that I worked years for, and they're useless, no matter how proud of them I am. I don't want to have to move, and leave everyone I know again.
I'm going to have to sell my condo, and start lying on my resume. Not to make myself look better, but to make it look like I don't have two degrees. I've applied at various retail positions, and been turned away because I'm TOO qualified. I don't want a better job, I just want to be able to work, so I can live.
To top it all off, I'm fat, and the only relationship I've ever been in was a one-night stand that didn't leave in the morning, and decided to stay for two years. This relationship put me off dating and physical intimacy, due to extreme incompatibilities in our likes.
My options right now are 'move in with my parents', which would drive me insane within a week, and 'move in with a friend', which is possible, but only because it would take a month to go crazy instead of a week.
Help. I don't know what to do, or what's going to happen. I had a great job, and lost it. I have two university degrees that I worked years for, and they're useless, no matter how proud of them I am. I don't want to have to move, and leave everyone I know again.

kerflurval
~kerflurval
My apologies. Any job I could point you in the direction of are in Utah.

PaulShep
~paulshep
Ugh, I'm sorry to hear. And I know it's been a long time since we talked, but I hope you can get out of that pickle sooner than later.